Either way, this still sounds like a problem everyone just solves by cross multiplication anyway. As much as I, too, sometimes wish Purina Bachelor Chow existed, it doesn't.

The only employers that are struggling to find workers are the ones that don't pay enough to bother.

Or they'll just do what Intel does out in Hillsboro, Oregon. Try hiring way below market wages, so only suckers overseas who don't understand that you can't live on Taco Bell wages in the Portland metro are stuck, then fire them for deportation if they bitch about wage slavery.

No, or we wouldn't require drivers to have licenses and vehicle registration wouldn't be a thing.

Sure bud. Look at any of the railroad towns that dot America and I guarantee you the yard sizes have remained small in the original area of town. We're seeing a return to form as car suburbs convert away from car dependency, rather the opposite trend of a century ago when streetcar suburbs were having their transit ripped out.

Only enthusiasts and professional vehicle operators want to drive everywhere for every trip. Everyone else wants things to be as simple as walking to the fridge. You don't get that with car dependency.

What? Lolno, this isn't new, it's the default. French Renaissance sized lawns in America were a mid-20th century suburban fad that's basically died as being wildly impractical for everyone involved. I live in a 1928 house (eg, when people still primarily walked everywhere) and the back and front yards are large enough for a decent vegetable garden or to entertain outside but still small enough it's not contributing significantly to spawl and mowing only takes like 20 minutes with a reel mower.

Tell me you know nothing about how the real world works without saying you know nothing about how the real world works.

Don't. Let's house them instead. Finland and Utah figured out that's also the fiscally conservative option, so unless the American right is more about making sure Other People suffer than being responsible people, this should be a multilateral win.

And make sure the minimum wage is a living wage in the first place. The Oklahoma Department of Labor says the average individual needs to make $26.50 per hour in a full time 40 hour job to break even here. It's time for a $30/hr minimum wage with no exceptions.

It's not a competition. Both should happen and are independent of each other.

Gay rights, too. And rights for people who aren't Arab or Muslim.

How many families actually use yards? None of my neighbors with kids use their yards, and tend to raise "indoor kids". Common space like the park down the street gets used but in the unwalkable parts of the neighborhood, the kids aren't getting themselves there because they can't. Seems like yards aren't the problem, too many cars resultunf in not enough safe common ground is the problem.

That's also possible in a walkable city. US cities had walkability and gardens before cars came along and we bulldozed the walkability out of them.

Most of what you need day to day should be accessible without needing a vehicle in the first place. Walkability gives people a greater degree of self reliance and a lower overall cost of living.

You'd think they'd have learned from Seattle on that, since the metro region straddles roughly 65 blocks wide from I 5 mile 99 to I 5 mile 200 in Washington.